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AMNH Central Archives
Collection
Identifier: DR-CA
Scope and Contents
The AMNH Central Archives consists of 826 boxes of correspondence and materials from the central administrative filing system of American Museum of Natural History, as well as 99 boxes of supporting index materials and card catalogs. Materials cover the overall administration of the museum including but not limited to, construction, finances, expeditions, education programs, reports and minutes, collections, employees, board of trustees, relations with the city, publications, membership, and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1890-1975
Craig Morris exhibition records, 1995-2004
Collection
Identifier: DR 167
Abstract
Consists of administrative files, exhibitions executed, exhibitions proposed and exhibition-related files. All the papers in this collection, including those in the administrative files, are connected to AMNH exhibitions - whether executed, under consideration or proposed to Morris when he was Associate Dean of Science for Exhibition.
Dates:
Majority of material found within ( 1999-2002).
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology building and exhibit records
Collection
Identifier: VPA 100
Dates:
1905-1995
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Fourth Floor Fossil Hall Renovation, Final Documentation of the Interpretive System
Collection
Identifier: DR 033
Scope and content
Consists of eleven oversize binders and three spiral bound volumes for the final documentation of the museum's fourth floor renovation completed in the 1990s, prepared by Ralph Appelbaum Associates Incorporated (RAA). The final documentation of the interpretive system covers all fossil exhibitions: The Halls of Saurischian and Ornithischian Dinosaurs, the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives, which includes the Hall of Primitive Mammals and the Paul and Irma...
Dates:
1992-1996
Hayden Planetarium Interplanetary Reservations
Collection
Identifier: DR 194
Scope and Content note
This particular collection refers to a promotional strategy implemented by the Hayden Planetarium. In 1949, in order to increase publicity for their space exhibit “Conquest of Space”, the Hayden Planetarium set up an “interplanetary-tour reservations desk” that would take reservations for the first trips into space. The museum promised that the collected names would be turned over to the first organization actually planning interplanetary travel. In addition to the desk at the planetarium,...
Dates:
1949-2011; Majority of material found within 1949-1953
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American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192